The evening world. Newspaper, July 17, 1912, Page 3

ROSENTHAL'S OWN STORY OF HIS RISE AND FALL IN FAVOR OF THE SYSTEM In “Death Warrant” He Told How He Got Backing for Gambling House, of Raid and Oppres- sion That Followed. ‘This is part of the story Herman Rosenthal told last Saturdey at the) time he éwore to his affidavit, It is now regarded as heving been his death ‘warrant: “I bave been having dealings with the cops all my life. When I was a doy of seventeen I used to go to the station house every week and pay over to the captain $25 for running a game. “I have b&n paying them money almost constantly ever since I stopped bustling newspapers to run a gambling game, and have a'ways been on the @quare with them, I know the whole them {s the truth. They nor no other tribe of them, and what I say about Derson has a thing against me except that I am a gambler and have tried to run a gambling house in New York. T have stuck by the rules of the game as laid down by the police, but because I sould not stand for being doublecroseed by Becker they have turned @gainst me and are trying to drive me out of town. “For more than twenty years I have eem around clubs and the race-trac! most of the time in business for myself. ‘Once I had got a lot of money togethe: ut I don't care about ‘money except what I need to go along. Now I am broke and the coppers got most of the Money. They are trying to drive me out of town, but I have determined to fight them. I know how it will place me, but I have been persecuted long enough. [ am in this fight, and I am going through with it no matter what Mt costs, ONLY 1@ TIM” COULD CALL HIM. ‘There !s only one man in the world who can call me off, that is the big fellow, ‘Big Tim’ Sullivan, and he ts 6 honest as the day ‘ts long, and I know he Is in sympathy with me, He don't want to see anybody else hurt, and I don't want to hurt anybody. My fight 1g with the police. It is purely personal with me. I am making a cru- @ade and iny friends know all about It. I am not going to hurt anybody else, end if I can't go through with this without bringing anybody in I'l quit, But I am golng to try to go through with it myself, The others wil! come in of their own free will before the thing !s through. “The police know that I think more of ‘Pig Tim’ Sullivan than I do of any- Ddody else all They know that the ‘only way they can hurt me is by trying to Involve him with me—by trying to! show that he ts, or was, my partner in the gambling business. They know this| 4s not true—that it is a dirty lle, He ts mot and never was Interested with me to the extent of a pen: T hope that | his name will not be brought out in thia contiection. “I never met Becker nor knew any- ting of him until last fall, when he made a raid at No. 115 Second avenu But I had had my experience with t cops—bitter experience often—and had nd desire to widen my circle of acquaint- @nce among them. ‘But when Lieut. Becker made the rye in Second avenue he became a big right away, He was in charge of the gambling situation. The payment of Protection money recently dates from that time. “The first time I met or saw Becker as 1 said, was at a ball on Thankesiving eve I used to run off the balls of the Hesper Club, which I took hold off, and the police w Iways declared in on them and got the better part of the re- ceipts. I had been raided at the Hesp Club, and that raid cost Deputy Com- @ilasioner Driscoll his job in the Police Department. They wanted to get Dri oll, and everybody would listen to mr then, He sinashed up the whole place. | T had also taken the house at No, 10 ‘West Forty-fifth street and had been raided and put out of business. They had evidence in that raid, for a copper had gotten inside and had played and I had no kick coming. They didn't get me and did not seem to want me, RAID OPENED “SORT OF PART- NERSHIP.” “Well, Becker was very pleasant and our friends tried to get us together. His first raid on Second avenue had been on @ house run by a man named Sigmund Rosenfeld, who was known ae ‘Beansey,’ and who had as his partner a man known as Jack Rose. This fellow Rose hada fi ‘better ver most of the boys on t they looked up to him as a @ sort of mouthplece—and although he never had much, he worked his way tn, The result of Becker's rald, on Beansey and Rose's place was a sort of a part- nership between Becker and Rose. “Becker wanted to he made a big man and Rose boosted hire along. Rose ki some of the newspyper boys, he sat end sure enough some stories we printed about Lieut. Becker and his xtrong arm squad which made him a big man and made him out to be in absolute control of the gambling situation in New York, And then the places began to open up and protection money wi paid again. “The next time I met Lieut. Becker was by appointment on New Year's eve at the Elks’ Club, Dinner was served for ten {n our party, including Beck Mre. Becker and Mrs. Rosenth George Levy and his daughter, Sam * Lewis and Lou!s Hyman. “We had a fine evening togeth and had a lot of champagne to drink. Late in the morning we were all pretty well under the weather from the ef. fects of the champagne, Becker and I had been talking together through the night and he seemed very anxious to win my friendship. When we were all Gedling 20 g00d be got up at the table, put his arms around me and kissed me. Ih rprised at his action, but he waved his hands to the crowd and said: “‘Anything in the world for you, Herman. I'll get up at.§ o'clock in the morning to do you a favor, You can have anything I've got.’ “Then he called over his three men, James Whi Chalres Foy and Charles Steinhart, a he introduced me to them, say! “This is my best pal and do any- thing he wants you to. do. “THOUGHT | COULD TRUST BECKER.” “Finally it got so that I thought I could trust Becker, as he seemed to really like me and I was thinking about opening up my place again. 1 needed some money to mak start and so I went to the best friend I've got, ‘Big Tim’ Sulliv: and asked him to loan: me $2,000. ‘Rig " didn't have the cash, so he signed a note for $2,000 for me and I got the money. The loan was out of pure friendship. “But that was not enough to atart me. I needed some more mopey, as my troubles with the police had cost me a lot of cash and I was practically broke. So I said to Becker: “‘T want to borrow $1,500 from you.’ “ "You're on,’ he repbied, ‘on condition that you'll give me 3 per cent. of your Place when you are open.’ Following is the account of how he @ot the money on a dummy morteage: “I had enough for the bank roll and to open up, and so early in March I started in business. Becker had told me to put Jack Rose in, and T knew whet that meant, for Rose would repna- sent Becker as his collector and would see that he got hie 2 per cent. out of all that the house won, I had no ob- fection to the arrang;ment. “The house was going along all right. but there was @ rap put in down at Headquarters, and I think somebody must have put Waldo wise to the fact that Becker and I were friendly, for Becker sent for me, and when I met him by appointment told me he was having a hard Job stating Waldo. He sald that Waldo wanted to get me and that he was stalling him off by saying that he had not been able to get ev!- dence. Hy told me he was in @ hole. T didn’t want him to risk his Job on my ace: and #o I told him “Charlie, you ere @ policeman, and !t 1s up to you to do your duty {f you want to stand right. If you can get ay, nvaence: Against me go ahead and jo It. “Three nights later J met him again. He sad 1 would have to give him a raid. Ho said {t was up to me to fix it uP any old way I liked, He said 1 could get an old roulette wheel and he would make # bluff and smash the win- dows.’ An account of the ratd here follo “The next tirfie I met Becker was a night later, I hired taxicab at y's, Forty-sixth street and Sixth avenue, We got in together and rode slowly down town. We talked over a lot of different things and finally had an argument. When we parted com: Pany that night we were not on v. good terms, I don't care to say w! t the argument was about, but it was over tho raid. THEN BECKER PUT A COP IN HIS HOUSE. “That settled it between us, but the policeman who had been stationed tn my houre since the night of the rald, who Becker said would be removed the next day, remained there, and I heard that Becker had boasted that he would keep a man there as long as he was in the Police Department. He never turned in the four other warrants that he held but had not served cn the nigh: of the rak, “You can take any other case of a gambling raid and the unserved war- rants are usually turned in the next day and destroyed, and the cop placed on duty at the raided place usually ts taken away within twenty-four hours after the raid. These facts, coupled w! the statements I had heard Becker had made, convinced mo that Becker had turned squarely against me, and instead ot being my friend had become my bitter enemy id Was persecuting me. 1 had had too many dealings with coppers to stand for persecution and oppression by the police—-oppression which plainiy violates the law, and though It was a hard step to take and I was warned against it, I determined to fight the police. “Becker wat wished be > able to work as he the newspapers were Neved that thig had b een don nie’ Sheeehan, the priv: Commissioner Waldo, was a news- paper reporter before he appointment in the Police Department “Sheehan often boasted of his ‘pull’ with the newspapers and of his friend- ship with men high in editorial positions recelved his on the dally press, He frequently men- tloned their nai among friends ‘and men who wou! lo anything for him ng Would auppress or print news at his { THE EVE , ROSENTHAL PUBLICLY GAVE OUT HIS OWN DEA TH WARRA NING WORLD, W EDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1912.: Prosecutor Who Accuses Police Of Laxity in Rosenthal Murder wish. He named editors of The World, at the Americhn and other daily papers. I can't remember all the n: but T know that he was constantly in com: Dany with the newspaper men, and the fact ven and nothing said about tt con- vinced me that Sheehan was able to make good and that the newspapers would print nothing. “GAVE BECKER A GREAT DRAG,” HE DECLARED. “This gave Becker his great drag. I know Winnle Sheehan and used to know him well. Before he became sec- retary to the Commissioner we used to pal around together, and any time that ‘Winnie needed fifty or a hundred he knew where to come and get it. I be- Neved he was still a friend of mine up until the time I got in trouble with Becker. Then I tried to see him, but he told me !t would not do for him to be seen talking to me and told me I would have to talk to him over the tele- phone. When I called him up he sald that something had happened at Police Headquarters and he could do nothing for me. I knew by his attitude that he was on Becker's side and so I did not try to do anything further “Just to show what the police are, there is the accusation of Inspector Hayes that I was running a crooked wheel in my house. He knows this is not true, The last time I saw Hayes we went into Rogers's restaurant and sat down at a table together. Hayes a: ‘Herman, I hear that you a ning a crooked wheel.’ “If tt's a crooked wheel you ought to know it,’ I replied, ‘because the po- lee had it once and I got !t back from them. It still has the police mark on It. If it was a crooked wheel the polic had plenty of time to discover tt when they had {t in their possession. It ts the same wheel and hasn't been changed in any way.’ ‘There,’ said Hayes, ‘you have sald enough to convict yourself.’ KNEW POLICE WERE HARBOR. ING GRUDGE, run- “y than my own statement, but | was sore about the crooked wheel thing and kuew that the police were still harboring the! old grudge against mo, “1 don't know how much money 1s deing collected in town, but IT do know Becker and know about his busin learned all about his affairs during the time I was in partnership with him, From not having a nickel he has come to be worth more than $60,000, and his Income has been between $7,500 and $10,900 a month. “Dozens of persons have been to me and asked me to pull off. I told them I was simply fighting my own case and would involve nobody else. But they all wanted me to stop. Messages of treaty and even of warning came by telephone. “A friend and a brother El me and had a long talk, He if I was broke and [ told him I wa: [ saw something coming, and he said T could have $400 and get out of town and start things anew, He said that my attitude meant that I would never be in right again in New York and I might as Well make up my mind to leave. “I told him T could not he called off, not for $50,000; that | was going through with this fight if {t was the last act of my life, He said he was sorry, and then left me, Other calls came from friends all over the city and in every walk of life, I have been called a fool for attacking the police-a squealer be- cause I would not stand for police op- pression. I have lost some of my best friends and made a lot of enemies. 1 can't help that now, Perhaps if7t had the thing to do over again I might not go into It, but now that I'm in I'm going to stick, , “I am not afratd of any copper that ever lived. I don’t carry a gun and never did, nor any other Weapon, But {t would not surprise me to have a gun Yes, Meat Is Costly, more's the pity; but I am not. Double strength still saves 50%. DhiteRose CEYLON TEA Uniformly Excellent. NS White Rose Coffee, Pound Tins, 35¢. that protection was being freely | hed at him and told him that! he would have to get better evidence} slipped into my pocket some night and ‘be arrested for having !t in my posses- sion. They think that I would skip out of town rather than go to jail. I expect to be ‘Jobbed’ in some way—to be rail- roaded, perhaps—but {t won't do the police any good. I am going to tell my story and prove that I am telling the truth.” — SHEEHAN DENIED ALL GAMBLER SAID. Just after Herman Rosenthal, in his full statement, eald that Winfleld R. Sheehan, Secretary to Commissioner Waldo, was living extravagantly and backing an amusement enterprise, all of his allegations were repeated to Mr. Sheehan, Mr. Sheehan made a categorical de- nial of every one of the statements and he said that since he had been con- had had nothing whatever to do with j handling the gambling situation and had not even discussed it Commissioner. Rosen’ w into the situation, —_—_—_—_——_ DIVORCED WIFE SAYS SHE MADE STATEMENT FOR “SOME GAMBLERS” |Dora Gilbert Declares She Was Once Spouse of Rosenthal. Dora Gilbert of No, 151 Fast Twenty- seventh street, about thirty-elght years olf, who says she ts @ formor wife of Rosenthal, 1s alleged by Lieutenant Charles Becker to have given him a 1,000 word statement of Rosenthal's | career in Philadelphia and the cause of their divorce. “You want to see me about my for- mer husband, Rosenthal?” she asked. | “Well, now that he {s dead I don't want to talk about him. I was divorced from him long ago, and have been free for 4 long time of the likes of him. I made @ statement last night to accommodate some gamblers who asked me to, and purely out of kindness to them. “They told me that my address should not be printed in the papers, But now | they have made {t public I don't want to have anything to do about tt. The two years that I was married to him ended by my getting a divorce from him, I never Mked him, and when I | married him I was very young. 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Now and then Rosenthal would take a melancholy satisfaction in letting intimate | friends into the rooms and showing them the dust-covered tables and chairs and the confused litter of neglect. On the third, the top floor of the house, |the widow, Mrs, Lillian Rosenthal, lay to-day in a state of hysterical frenay. | which her physician gave the breaking of her first dull |daze, which immediately followed the threat to kill him could come to any- thing was that he did not believe that there was anybody among the East Side Killers who could be hired to touch him, Ife had bought too many tone of | coal, too many suits of clothes, pald too | murder, did not have the effect of quiet-| many doctors’ bills, he said. The po- |Ing her nerves so that she could sleep. |iice might think they could hire or Instead, the drugs seemed to make her nearly insane. Her sister, who ts con- stantly with her, sald to-day that Mra. Rosenthal had not slept since she heard of the killing of her husband. BLAMES HERSELF FOR NOT GUARDING VICTIM. An Bvening World reporter who visited | the house to-day found it filed with the |sound of her shricks and almost inco- herent outbursts against the men who shot her husband. There was no name of hatred or contempt which she did not use inet the man who had been at- |tacked by name by Rosenthal just before the killing—Ldeut. Charles Becker. 5! ‘went over and over again accounts of the \affection and trust which Rosenthal gave|anything her Herman thought was \to Becker, and spoke of times when ahe| right was therefore right ToOld Quebec and his wife. She blamed herself for not orctbly preventing Rosenthal from going out the night he was killed, Every little while her voice was atilled and whispered word came downstairs had fainted again and the re- 4 f ma \ tases aad! friends in the house would Thequaintest French city in hurry to her Lea, ye fet be Wasa America. A of enthal wi e he! % ltgnorrow. “He wil be burted in the QNiagara Falls, Toronto, Washington C iA iced a Thousand Islands, Rapidsof hal's sist id to-day that she | Ren vary teurtel ef the effect of the|f the St. Lawrence, Montreal, funeral on the widow and that there Quebec, Lake Champlain, was even da: r that it might umhings Lake George, Saratoga Springs, and the Hudson River, are all inluded in the 18-day personally-con- ducted tour of the Penn- sylvania Railroad, @ Leave Wednesday, August 7 @ Round-trip rate from New York, covering necessary ex- coerce gerillas to kil! him, but the thing was imponaible, His only fear was from & policeman in disguise or an out-of- town gunman. NEWS OF MURDER KEPT FROM VICTIM'S INVALID MOTHER. The mother of Rosenthal suffered a stroke of paralysis several weeks ago, and the physicians have told the fam- fly that if she learns of her son's tragic death the nows will almoat ce! tainly kill her, Herman was hor favorite son, She was his champion Against other members of the family, who were Inclined to criticise him for being a gambler—and the only one in the family. She stoutly argued that her mind permanently. Nevertheless she knew thet the result of preventing Mrs, Rosenthal from attending might be worse. Mrs. Rosenthal has not yet been allowed to look at the dead face of her husband. BROTHER HOLDS GAMBLERS’ FEUD RESPONSIBLE. Edward Rosenthal, the brother of Herman, who is a finely educated man and an interpreter in the Court of General Senstons, said to-day that he penses, $110, altogether disagreed with the widow g about her responsibility for the death|f| @ Ask Ticket Agents for book- of her husband in not keeping Rosenthal at insisting on home Monday let, or address C. 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